On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:28:38PM -0500, Nat Gross wrote: > > Hit <tab> to have the command line auto-filled, or just use a wildcard > > in the command if you don't need to see it first. > Hey, this thing works even without the completion pkg installed. What gives? Completion is a basic, built-in ability. The bash-completion package just adds a bunch of fancy features, generally specific to the various commands. For example, with it installed, you can type "ssh host<tab>" and it'll complete "ssh hostname", providing hostname is in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Or, if you use mplayer, it'll only show lists of files it thinks mplayer knows how to play. (This last is annoying if you have a weirdly named file, or a filetype bash_completion doesn't know about.) > One more thing. How do I get the freakin DEL key to delete the char > under the cursor and the backspace key to the left of the cursor, in > Gnome? (Kde does it but I use gnome most of the time.) Oh, this one is a nightmare I'm not even going to touch. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
